This past Sunday I participated in my first full marathon. More details on that to follow, but first I want to commandeer the photos my mom took from her camera. Trust me, there are some great action shots that are going to show just how dorky I was during this whole adventure.
Yesterday morning I woke up to find this in my inbox:
Yesterday morning I woke up to find this in my inbox:
My first thought was, gee, the course did feel a little long.
I was timing myself with my Nike+ chip that syncs to the watch. I know that a marathon course is calculated by the runner taking all of the shortest trips around corners, and if you are on the outside of a turn you are going to add on distance.
So at that point I just figured that I took all of the outside turns a little wide. I did not even think about the course being mislabeled.
And thus I learned that my original PR (since I had never run a full marathon before) of 04:54:58 was now slashed and changed to 04:53:18.
I PR'ed for a marathon twice in three days!
And now I will do a little victory dance, because that must mean I am pretty much a superhuman. Along with about 8000 other participants, but who's counting?
I was timing myself with my Nike+ chip that syncs to the watch. I know that a marathon course is calculated by the runner taking all of the shortest trips around corners, and if you are on the outside of a turn you are going to add on distance.
So at that point I just figured that I took all of the outside turns a little wide. I did not even think about the course being mislabeled.
And thus I learned that my original PR (since I had never run a full marathon before) of 04:54:58 was now slashed and changed to 04:53:18.
I PR'ed for a marathon twice in three days!
And now I will do a little victory dance, because that must mean I am pretty much a superhuman. Along with about 8000 other participants, but who's counting?
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